convoke
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That would ease passage of some of Castro's legislative priorities, but her pledge to convoke an assembly to rewrite the country's constitution could still be blocked since that would require a two-thirds majority.
From Reuters • Dec. 1, 2021
Fernandez currently has a working majority in both houses of Congress, but would need two-thirds' congressional support to convoke an elected constitutional assembly.
From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2012
Messori explained that if a Pope decided he was no longer capable of leading the Church, he would convoke a Consistory of all the world's cardinals at the Vatican.
From Time • Jan. 27, 2010
Only when a measure of peace�or at least stalemate�eased the power struggle between the army, old party cadres and Maoist radicals, did Chairman Mao decide to convoke the meeting.
From Time Magazine Archive
The dispute grew more bitter, and Theodosius II. thought it necessary to convoke an Œcumenical Council at Ephesus in 431.
Vocabulary lists containing convoke
John F. Kennedy's Address to the American People on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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Second Treatise of Government
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